3 1/2 cheers for 49ers' Aldon Smith

Updated 11:43 pm, Monday, December 10, 2012

Random colliding thoughts ...

-- Aldon Smith has 19 1/2 sacks. If he gets 3 1/2 more, he will break the league record held by Michael Strahan. Question: When Smith gets closer to the record, will Brett Favre un-retire and fall down to give Smith the record?

-- Smith should have been credited with a sack and a half for his first sack Sunday. Smith is now getting fan mail from biker-bar bouncers.

-- Isn't it surprising that we haven't heard any Favre comeback rumors? Until now.

-- Colin Kaepernick critics, who note that he has played some really ordinary ball the last two games, no doubt would rather have Andrew Luck. Well, Luck wasn't available when the 49ers drafted. And on Sunday, in the Colts' 27-23 win over the Titans, Luck was 16-for-34 passing, for 196 yards. Against the Dolphins, Kaepernick was 18-for-23 for 185 yards. Also, Luck didn't run for a 50-yard touchdown.

-- The sky is falling, and Alex Smith's demotion is going to cause NFL players to hide concussions for fearing of losing their jobs. Folks, NFL players already hide concussions. Even the dumbest NFL players are aware that there are more large, angry, muscular young men in America than there are NFL jobs, and players will do just about anything to keep their jobs. Already widely reported: Many NFL players admit to cheating on their baseline cognition tests, so that when concussed, it will be easier to get back to "normal" and be OK'd to return to action.

-- If the NFL is serious about concussion treatment, it will ramp up its concussion-detection system.

-- Wally Pipp had a career year in 1924 (.295, 114 RBIs), the season before he got Colin Kaepernick'd.

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